Category:H.M.S. Britannia (Training Ship) Entrants of May, 1869

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Fifty-nine candidates vied for thirty-eight vacancies in the H.M.S. Britannia intake term of May, 1869. In order of merit, the successful candidates, with their preparatory school where specified, were:[1]

  1. Henry Athol Scudamore Stanhope
  2. Sam Rawson (Eastman's Academy)
  3. John Stanhope Clarke (Eastman's Academy)
  4. Henry Bridges Molesworth
  5. Henry Morton Tudor Jones (Mr. Vickery's School)
  6. Arthur Archibald Campbell Galloway (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  7. Robert Bourchier Sherard Wrey
  8. George Trevor Spencer
  9. Edward Joseph Bain (Eastman's Academy)
  10. Stephen Samuel Gray
  11. Herbert Sayres Edmunds (Eastman's Academy)
  12. Edward Pardoe Powell
  13. Hugh Talbot
  14. Herbert Augustus Warren (Eastman's Academy)
  15. Alexander Lyon (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  16. Frederick Fegarty Fegen (Mr. Vickery's School)
  17. Archibald Berkeley Milne (Eastman's Academy)
  18. Richard Henry Francis Wharton Wilson (Stubbington House School)
  19. Francis George Theodore Cole
  20. Thomas Henry Fisher (Stubbington House School)
  21. Herries Sholts Douglas (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  22. William Francis Gunn (Eastman's Academy)
  23. Robert Henry Simpson Stokes (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  24. A. C. Sherrard (not found at TNA; I have no good guess)
  25. Ian Reidhaven Grant
  26. Henry Charles John Bunbury
  27. Bulstrode Whitelocke Cumberlege (Eastman's Academy)
  28. Walter Stuart Smith
  29. Terence Hugh Galloway O'Brien (Eastman's Academy)
  30. Harold Charrington
  31. Charles Hope Robertson (Eastman's Academy)
  32. Walter Vernon Anson (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  33. Herbert Bayley Dillon (Eastman's Academy)
  34. Henry Anketell (Eastman's Academy)
  35. James Weston Litle (as "Litleton")
  36. Henry Bruce Wroughton (Eastman's Academy)
  37. John Rodd Childs (Stubbington House School)
  38. George Grey Haswell

Additionally, fourteen candidates for cadetships for navigating duties produced seven winners in the following order of merit:

  1. Charles Chimmo Jeffery (Eastman's Academy)
  2. Stanley Alfred Brooke Burney (Burney's Royal Naval Academy)
  3. Henry William Steele
  4. George Herbert King (Stubbington House School) (b 12 Mar 1854, nav Lt., drowned 22 Sep 1884 Wasp)
  5. John Frederick Mills (Mr. Vickery's School)
  6. James Calrow Coyle
  7. Campbell George Sawers (as "Sawer" in the source)

Footnotes

  1. "Naval Cadetships" The Hampshire Advertiser, (Southampton, England) 17 April, 1869. p. 8.

Term Intakes into H.M.S. Britannia
1859-1869
Jun, 1859 | Dec, 1859
Jun, 1860 | Sep, 1860 | Dec, 1860 | Mar, 1861 | Jun, 1861 | Sep, 1861 | Mar, 1862 | Jun, 1862 | Sep, 1862 | Dec, 1862
Mar, 1863 | Jun, 1863 | Sep, 1863 | Jan, 1864 | Mar, 1864 | Aug, 1864 | Oct, 1864 | Jan, 1865 | Mar, 1865 | May, 1865 | Sep, 1865
Jan, 1866 | May, 1866 | Sep, 1866 | Jan, 1867 | May, 1867 | Sep, 1867 | Jan, 1868 | May, 1868 | Sep, 1868 | Jan, 1869 | May, 1869 | Sep, 1869
1870-1879
Jan, 1870 | Jul, 1870 | Jan, 1871 | Jul, 1871 | Jan, 1872 | Jul, 1872 | Jan, 1873 | Jul, 1873 | Jan, 1874 | Jul, 1874
Jan, 1875 | Jul, 1875 | Jan, 1876 | Jul, 1876 | Jan, 1877 | Jul, 1877 | Jan, 1878 | Jul, 1878 | Jan, 1879 | Jul, 1879
1880-1889
Jan, 1880 | Jul, 1880 | Jan, 1881 | Jul, 1881 | Jan, 1882 | Jul, 1882 | Jan, 1883 | Jul, 1883 | Jan, 1884 | Jul, 1884 | Jan, 1885 | Jul, 1885
Jan, 1886 | Jul, 1886 | Jan, 1887 | Jul, 1887 | Jan, 1888 | Jul, 1888 | Jan, 1889 | Mar, 1889 | Jul, 1889
1890-1899
Jan, 1890 | Jul, 1890 | Jan, 1891 | Jul, 1891 | Jan, 1892 | Jul, 1892 | Jan, 1893 | Jul, 1893
Jan, 1894 | Jul, 1894 | Jan, 1895 | Jul, 1895 | Jan, 1896 | Jul, 1896 | Jan, 1897 | May, 1897 | Sep, 1897
Jan, 1898 | May, 1898 | Sep, 1898 | Jan, 1899 | May, 1899 | Sep, 1899
1900-1906
Jan, 1900 | May, 1900 | Sep, 1900 | Jan, 1901 | May, 1901 | Sep, 1901 | Jan, 1902 | May, 1902 | Sep, 1902
Jan, 1903 | May, 1903 | Sep, 1903 | Jan, 1904 | May, 1904 | Sep, 1904 | Jan, 1905 | May, 1905 | Sep, 1905 | Jan, 1906
From September 1903 entries were also made to the Royal Naval College, Osborne under the Selborne Scheme. The Britannia was closed in July 1905 after the May entry, which was sent to Bermuda with the January entry. The following two terms under the old scheme were sent straight to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.